Our hurricane-hit islands deserve aid. The rules that block it are wrong | Guy Hewitt

Hurricane Maria has wrought terrible destruction in the Caribbean, yet OECD guidelines say that the islands are ineligible for assistance•Hurricane Maria – live updatesIn a manner reminiscent ofStephen King ’s Bazaar of Bad Dreams, dark clouds of despair and destruction hover yet again over the Caribbean with the passage ofHurricane Maria.The most recent version of our recurring ecological nightmare includedHurricane Harvey followed byHurricane Irma, the latter setting a new record of three consecutive days as a category 5 storm with maximum wind speeds of 185mph, and leaving a trail of devastation British foreign secretary Boris Johnson described as “absolutely hellish”.Continue reading...
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